Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-03-31
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A BOWule ". I.) ulspatcn says
@Last reports from Legraco and LeBeau say
that great damage has been done by the high
waters OF the Missouri River. At Lepeau
people from the bottoms we're compelled TO
flee to the high bluffs Barthel Olson was on
the roof Of his building all night, and was
rescued next day. Jacob Mccarthy, Mr..
Kirkland, and three others were drowned on
tho Bottoms south of Lsgrace. Wilkins Il
SINNERS ranch near Legrace is under several
feet OF water.
Jackson Marion, for the murder OF
John Cameron, fifteen years ago, was hanged
last W. OK a. Beatrice, Neb
The courthouse and Jail at Yorkvillc,
Kendall County, limos, was destroyed by
fro The public records were sayel and the
prisoners safely removed.
Near Loetonia, Ohio, q freight train
dashed into the rear of the Chicago express,
which hal bsen stopped for the purpose OF
repairing tho brake hose The sleeper and
one ach were wrecked, the engineer of the
express killed, and seven persons wounded,
two OF whom may not recover.
At New York Mills, Mimi, Mrs.
Joseph Mattson murdered her little girl,
year OLD, by sovering the jugular vein with
pair of sharp shears Then she committed
suicide in the same manner.
Thomas HI. Harding was hanged at
Dillon, Mont Ter, for the murder of William
Ferguson, a young stage-driver, committed
while Ferguson was driving his stage from
Melrose to Glendale on May ~, 1886.
The Grand Jury ct Chicago on Sat
.urdly returned indictments aga INST the follow
ing persons for malfeasance in Office and con-
sp.racy to defraud the couny: Daniel j.
Wren, County Commissioner; Adm Ochs,
ex-County Commss .oner, Chairman of the
board in 1SSi-'S5; John Il. Van Pelt, ex-
County Commissioner; Harry Varnell, Warden
of the Insane Asylum; William J. McGarlgle,
Warden of the County Hospital; Charles Frey,
Warden of the Infrmary; Elisha A. Robinson,
grocer, furnishcr of county supplies. The
parties were arrested and gave bail.
Mr.. John McGovorn has been called
to Omaha to conduct the editorial columns Of
the Evening Bee in that city. He has been
de ltifed for many years with the newspapers
of Chicago, having held and filed with fine
ability responsible positions on the daily press,
but it was perhaps as editor of the Current
and as the author of several popular books
that he became best known to the literary
world The Chicago Daily Ncws says: Eve
doubt not that Mr.. McGovern will be cordially
welcomed by his professional brethren in
Omaha-he certainly carries with him to his
new field of labor the best wishes of the many
Chcagoans who recognize his personal worth
no less than his intellectual attainmelts and
abilities"
Trouble with the cotton-handlers in
New Orleans is seriously interfering with the
trade.
Mayor Carter H. Harrison positively
declined the Democratic nomination for Mayor
of Chicago.
A colored man named Johnson was
executed at Marion, Arkansas, IN presence o.
fifteen hundred persons, for an outrage Oh
young white girl left in his charge.
The pork-packing establishment o
John Taylor & Co., at Trenton, N. j., was de
stroyed by fire. The loss will reach nearl,
$3.50, 600
Fire broke out in the shaving hous,
of w. s. Weed & Co.'s planning mill at Bing
hamton, N. Y and the mill was soon a mas
of flames From the mill the flames sprea
TO the immense lumber yard. The los
amounts to $4,000 large number o
workmen are thrown out of employment
Agents of California roads have an
nouuced that in future rates Oh wool TO Bosto
will be $40 per 100 pounds, an advance O
s477I(. This, it is said, will make it impos
sible for Boston dealers to handle Californi
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